...The following is the overview of a three-year study to scope the nature and extent of land use change in the three...Asian  countries  of  India, Indonesia and Myanmar...The study analyses primary data on land use approvals for mining, hydropower, industrial estates and plantations over the last three decades in these countries as these sectors have caused large-scale land transformations...This research hopes to contribute to the understanding of the conditions and consequences of land conflicts arising from land use change. What are the reasons why land conversion proposals escalate into land conflicts, what are the strategies that affected communities adopt to address these and to what outcomes...The overall objective of the study is to understand how communities secure land and natural resources that are intrinsic to their basic human survival and livelihoods and to what effect...The research also elaborates on the range of laws  and institutions that are directly relevant to land and environmental conflicts in each of these countries...

Contents
An  Overview
Terms  used  in  the  study
Methodology
Analysis
Impacts  of  land  use  change
Conflicts
Strategies
Responses  to  community  strategies
Remedies
Conclusion